Been taking an advanced Illustrator course on Udemy, and noted that the first section of the course deals with Adobe's AI features in the software. There are a lot of powerful AI image creation tools built into the software now, which are easily accessible just by typing a few words into a prompt box and perhaps setting some optional parameters.
The thing I wonder is: how should designers who use these tools answer when someone asks, "did you design this" or "is this your idea"? It would seem hard to take full ownership of something that you really didn't create in the first place, something that you just left to the providence of artificial intelligence and server-side generative algorithms. I'm not discounting the value of these tools and their potential in helping to expand people's expressive possibilities, but I personally wouldn't feel comfortable taking ownership of something that I really didn't make myself, aside from supplying a few words.
Maybe it's kind of like when you outsource something to someone else. It may be your project and you were the one who gave the directions that influenced the outcome, but you didn't really do the work, so how can you say, "I did this" or "I came up with this" or "this was my idea" or even "Yeah, isn't this neat, I came up with this myself?" At some point in time you have to give credit to the people—or to the AI technology—that made the expression possible.
Anyway, it's something I would wrestle with, and it's one reason why I wouldn't want to rely on AI tools to design visual media for me whenever possible. I may suck at drawing things myself, but I just can't feel good about claiming ownership over AI-derived results.